HTML/CSS Making a textbox with text that is grayed out, and disappears when I click to enter info, how?
Chrome, Firefox, IE10 and Safari support the html5 placeholder attribute
<input type="text" placeholder="First Name:" />
In order to get a more cross browser solution you'll need to use some javascript, there are plenty of pre-made solutions out there, though I don't know any off the top of my head.
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_placeholder.asp
This answer illustrates a pre-HTML5 approach. Please take a look at Psytronic's answer for a modern solution using the placeholder
attribute.
HTML:
<input type="text" name="firstname" title="First Name" style="color:#888;"
value="First Name" onfocus="inputFocus(this)" onblur="inputBlur(this)" />
JavaScript:
function inputFocus(i) {
if (i.value == i.defaultValue) { i.value = ""; i.style.color = "#000"; }
}
function inputBlur(i) {
if (i.value == "") { i.value = i.defaultValue; i.style.color = "#888"; }
}